An Egyptian lawyer has come under attack after stating that women who wear ripped jeans should be raped.
Nabih al-Wahsh said if a woman wore such trousers, she deserved to be sexually assaulted and harassed, and said it was an Egyptian man’s ‘national duty’ to rape her.
The jaw-dropping comments came during a television appearance on satellite channel Al-Assema.
Al-Wahsh appeared on the talk show where the invited guests were discussing laws on ‘inciting debauchery.’
Egyptian lawyer, Nabih al-Wahsh. Mail photo
He said if women wear jeans with rips that show any part of their legs, they are inviting men to harass them, Al-Arabiyareports.
He added that raping women who wear ripped jeans is ‘a national duty,’ implying that this would not only be what the women deserved but a way for them to learn self-respect.
He said: “Girls must respect themselves so others respect them. Protecting morals is more important than protecting borders.”
This is not the first time Al-Wahsh has behaved outrageously in a television studio. Last year, he appeared on a talk show with an Australia-based imam who argued that wearing a hijab — a headscarf — is a choice and not a religious requirement for Muslim women.
This infuriated Al-Wahsh, who took off his shoe and beat the imam round the head with it on live television.
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